Slow news weekend filler: My 2004 Smoking ban site.

Minneapolis passed a bar smoking ban in 2004 that took effect in March 2005. I registered the domain name "BarSmokingBan.com" to try to organise resistance against the ban. My regular neighborhood bar, then the Poodle Club on East Lake Street in Minneapolis, now http://mcmahonsirishpub.net/ was at least 75% smokers so I anticipated the effect a Minneapolis smoking ban would have. My predictions turned out to be true, even though the Minneapolis ban began when the weather warmed up in the spring 2005.

2004 was, like 2008, a major election year and I hoped to motivate people to use the ban vote as a factor in their voting and to try to get them to vote. The latter was the more important of the two because a high number of the "barflies" while quite knowledgeable on political issues didn't vote or voted reflexively.

The website idea was, to be honest, a flop. It garnered well under 100 hits before the election (that's the same counter at 77 now). This is fewer than http://FreedomToAct.com gets on a slow weekend day.

Most links are now dead. It show that I cared about this issue in the past. Also, it has really "smokey" wallpaper background. I dropped the domain name after the first year. This is common with domain ideas that don't "get traction" Greg Lang

Here is the original page. http://ocrscans.homestead.com/barsmokingban.html